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The Only Metric That Matters: Or, Pinker’s Folly
March 17, 2026
Lancet Discovers Public Health Is Politics
March 16, 2026
Class 82: Be More Uncertain (About Models)
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On Not Reading
March 11, 2026
The Great Smoothing: Another Reason Not To Fear (or trust) AI
March 10, 2026
A Synchronicity Or Coincidence? What Is Behind Curious Events?
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Class 81: The Second Biggest Error In Time Series
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The Paper Test Shows Why AGI Is Not Possible: And Why The Brain Is Different In Kind
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Researcher Imagines Weather With No Human Influence: Concludes Climate Change Hurts Incomes
March 3, 2026
Faith Deposited: Why Godless Science Fails
March 2, 2026
Class 80: Granger Causality; Per Se & Accidental Time Series; Stationarity
February 26, 2026
Scientists Seeking To Escape Criticism Run To The Warmth & Comfort Of Bluesky
February 24, 2026
The Loss of Ephemera — Guest Post by The Blonde Bombshell
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Class 79: Time Series Example
February 19, 2026
The Importance Of Not Making Decisions
February 18, 2026
Don’t Take The ‘Long-Covid’ Alzheimer’s Study Seriously
February 17, 2026
AI Is Driving Many Crazy: Our Latest Panic
February 16, 2026
Class 78: The Attempt To Turn Correlation Lead Into Causation Gold In Time Series
February 12, 2026
Desperate Need For Equality: AP Exam Performance
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Some Sanity: Experts Sued For Creating Gender Delusions
February 10, 2026
Why The Recent Claims Of AGI Fail: Plus, A New Test For AGI
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The Only Metric That Matters: Or, Pinker’s Folly

Posted by By Briggs March 17, 2026
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Lancet Discovers Public Health Is Politics

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Top 20 Posts Of All Time: Reader’s Choice

Start of long weekend, where the Nation trips happily outside into the warm summer sun. Well, sun anyway---more or less. Not really summer, either. Turns out the climate change forecasts…
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The Sexual Habits Of The Tunisian Male Quantified At Last

You know that we have begun at the peak and that it's all downhill when a scientific paper starts with a sentence like this: La sexualité occupe une place très…
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People Growing Dumber Or Research Growing Slacker?

If there was ever a paper which was in danger of refuting itself by its title, this is it. "Were the Victorians cleverer than us? The decline in general intelligence…
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What’s The Official Name For Governance By Thuggery?

To summarize what we know, but only in brief and leaving out many smaller scandals: The White House lied about the cause of Benghazi. They knowingly, willingly, and falsely claimed…
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Subjective Versus Objective Bayes (Versus Frequentism): Part Final: Parameters!

(All the stuff in this series is, in a fuller form, in my new upcoming book, which is tentatively called Logical Probability and Statistics---but I've only changed the title 342…
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Subjective Versus Objective Bayes (Versus Frequentism): Part IV

Read Part III Just review and clarification this time, folks. Dirty hard work. But necessary given the confusion from last post. Time to pump some neurons! Next time we---finally!---get to…
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Posted inCulture Statistics

Prime Minister Kenny’s Abortion Bill Would Save One Life A Year, Take Others

Ireland's Prime Minister Enda---that's Enda, not Edna, the creature---Kenny is being snubbed by Cardinal Sean O'Malley. Reason? Kenny is being "honored" by Barely Catholic---a.k.a. BC, a.k.a. Boston College---because Kenny is…
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Damn Straight News: Manly Men More Likely To Be Conservative

As will come as absolutely no surprise to regular readers, but will be a traumatic revelation to the public at large, it has finally been acknowledged in the peer-reviewed literature…
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  1. John M on The Only Metric That Matters: Or, Pinker’s FollyMarch 17, 2026

    "How many souls make it to Heaven" is an attribute that can't be expressed with variable data.

  2. Brian (bulaoren) on The Only Metric That Matters: Or, Pinker’s FollyMarch 17, 2026

    As it happens, Stephen Pinker and I were at the same university, around the same time. No, I don't recall…

  3. bob sykes on The Only Metric That Matters: Or, Pinker’s FollyMarch 17, 2026

    Humanism might be a better guide, if you are a high-IQ Greek philospher like Aristotle, or even Nietzsche. But for…

  4. Uncle Mike on The Only Metric That Matters: Or, Pinker’s FollyMarch 17, 2026

    "...the only metric that matters is how many souls make it to Heaven..." This metric is tough to measure. There's…

  5. JH on The Only Metric That Matters: Or, Pinker’s FollyMarch 17, 2026

    What Pinker missed was that if a religion is true, then living by its tenets is best. What does it…

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